NMC Campus Observer

Archive for September 13th, 2006

Personal Space Issues in SL

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Sep 13, 2006 10:18pm

A new article in Nature, Concept of 'personal space' survives in virtual reality, summarizes some fascninating research from Stanford researchers that suggest body language, eye contact, and physical space known in the real world are replicated with the same gender differences in Second Life: With thousands of people using Second Life at any one time, Nick Yee and colleagues at Stanford University realised it presented a chance to assess whether users interacted in similar ways to people in the real ... more » »

Skypecasting for Teacher’s Buzz

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Sep 13, 2006 08:45pm

To faciliate the communication, and also just to experiment with new technology, for the September 18 NMC Teacher's Buzz meeting, we are going to enable a way to talk via audio using Skype. If you are a Skype user, you can join our "Skypecast", a group shared audio channel. (If you have not used Skype, it is a free application for Mac OSX and Windows that allows audio communication via the web... like a telephone without the telephone company.) Just visit ... more » »